Bulk shipping

The bulk shipping feature allows your sellers to reduce the individual item shipping charges if any customer purchases more than one item from them.

Whenever a seller on your marketplace clicks the Upload button in their seller portal, under Delivery Options section on the item upload page, they can enable the relevant delivery options for each particular item. They can add several delivery methods as they want and the delivery cost will be as follows when a buyer selects a specific delivery method.

Refer below for more details on what the relevant terms mean;

“Single Item Delivery (A)”:This is the delivery rate charged if the customer only orders a single item from the seller.

“With Other Item (B)”: This is the delivery rate charged for every subsequent item that the customer purchases from the seller.

Do note that if the seller leaves (B) blank, the delivery charge here would be the same as what was filled in under (A). This means that every subsequent item from the seller will be charged as stated under (A).

Therefore, when a customer orders more than 1 of the same item from the seller, the delivery cost will be calculated as the cost of (A) and the subsequent cost of (B).

After the customer has added the multiple items from the same seller to their shopping cart, he will see the following order summary;

Sub Total- This refers to the total cost of each individual item before any delivery charges have been added)

Delivery Costs- This refers to the total original delivery cost without any bulk shipping discount applied (Adding up (A) for every item)

Bulk Delivery Discount- This refers to the difference between the total original delivery cost and the new delivery cost after bulk shipping has been applied

The following example provides an illustration of how bulk shipping will be calculated.

Delivery Service

Single Item Delivery (A)

With Other Item (B)

Merchant A

International

20

5

Local

10

2

Merchant B

Local

6

0

International

30

1

Fast track

27

* Left blank so the default value for (B) here is 27

John purchases the following items from the marketplace.

Item purchased

Merchant

Delivery Service chosen

Original (136)

Delivery cost incurred (122)

Why?

Item A

Merchant A

International

20

20

The first item is charged at 20

Item B X2

Merchant A

Local

20

12

10 for the first item and 2 for the second item

Item C

Merchant B

International

30

30

The first item is charged at 30

Item D X2

Merchant B

Local

12

6

Delivery for subsequent item is charged at (B)

Item E X2

Merchant B

Fast track

54

54

Delivery for subsequent item is charged at (B)

Delivery cost for Merchant A = $20 + $12 = $32

Delivery cost for Merchant B = $30 + $6 + $54 = $90

Hence, the final delivery cost breakdown on the cart page, checkout review page and consumer purchase history page will be as follows.

Cost breakdown

Amount ($)

Sub Total

XX

Delivery Costs

$(20 + 12 + 30+ 6 + 30 + 54) = $122

(delivery amount as stated in (A))

Bulk Delivery Discount

- $14 (delivery cost as stated in (B))

Total

$XX + $79

Do note that if the seller leaves (B) blank, the delivery charge here would be the same as what was filled in under (A). This means that every subsequent item from the seller will be charged as stated under (A).

Therefore, when a customer orders more than 1 item from a single seller, his discounted delivery cost will be calculated by adding the delivery charge of the item with the highest (A) value and the (B) values of every subsequent item.

After the customer has added the multiple items from the same seller to their shopping cart, he will see the following order summary;

Sub Total- This refers to the total cost of each individual item before any delivery charges have been added)

Delivery Costs- This refers to the total original delivery cost without any bulk shipping discount applied (Adding up (A) for every item)

Bulk Delivery Discount- This refers to the difference between the total original delivery cost and the new delivery cost after bulk shipping has been applied

The following example provides an illustration of how bulk shipping will be calculated.

Delivery Service

Single Item Delivery (A)

With Other Item (B)

Merchant A

International

20

5

Local

10

2

Merchant B

Local

6

0

International

30

1

Fast track

27

* Left blank so the default value for (B) here is 27

John purchases the following items from the marketplace.

Item purchased

Merchant

Delivery Service chosen

Original delivery cost

Delivery cost incurred

Why?

Item A

Merchant A

International

20

20

Item A has the highest delivery charge (A)

Item B

Merchant A

Local

10

2

Delivery for subsequent item is charged at (B)

Item C

Merchant B

International

30

30

Item C has the highest delivery charge (A) – for Merchant B onwards

Item D

Merchant B

Local

6

0

Delivery for subsequent item is charged at (B)

Item E

Merchant B

Fast track

27

27

Delivery for subsequent item is charged at (B)

Delivery cost for Merchant A = $20 + $2 = $22

Delivery cost for Merchant B = $30 + $27 = $57

Hence, the final delivery cost breakdown on the cart page, checkout review page and consumer purchase history page will be as follows.

Cost breakdown

Amount ($)

Sub Total

XX

Delivery Costs

$(20 + 10 + 6 + 30 + 27) = $93

(delivery amount as stated in (A))

Bulk Delivery Discount

- $14 (delivery cost as stated in (B))

Total

$XX + $79

Do note that bulk shipping only applies for retail goods on a RETAILS AND GOODS marketplace only. We do not support free delivery for buyers who purchase goods over a certain amount. However, we have taken note of such requests from our users and we are working to make such feature available on our marketplaces in the future.